Re: [Help-gnu-radius] Long startup time

[Greg G]

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> Greg G <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > to process requests" message.  truss shows me *nothing* during this
> > time.  ps tells me that its' in the 'run' state or taking up 40%+ of
> > one of my CPUs.  What is it doing during this time, 
> >    
>
> It is trying to resolve all the host names it finds in the files
> raddb/naslist and raddb/config.

  That's not likely to take two minutes, since my naslist is the 
default localhost entry and the config file does't have any.  I've 
discovered that it's trying to build a db from the users file.

> > and is there possibly a way to shorten it?
> >    
>
> There are two possible solutions: either (1) set up your DNS so it
> correctly resolves everything, or (2) start radius with --do-not-resolve
> option (adding `resolve no;' to the option block of your raddb/config
> will have the same effect).
>  
   I did try that (with both -n and --do-not-resolve) and of course, it 
didn't matter.

-Greg G